Houser Family Crest and Last Name Background

Houser is an English surname. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “one who made, or dealt in hose, i.e., stockings or socks”.

• The 2010 census count for Houser in the United States was 20,484, good for rank 1,749. That puts it among the top 2,500 US surnames. French civil records give 165 births under the name Houser from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1971–1980.
• It began as an occupational name, from the work an early bearer did.

Houser coat of arms

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Houser family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. Get the complete Houser report, with a museum-style coat of arms.